Method and System for Actively Publishing Message in IM Group Using Chat Robot

Abstract

The present invention relates to a method and system for actively publishing a message in an IM group using a chat robot. The method includes: a client adding a chat robot in an IM group satisfying a configured condition; the chat robot automatically obtaining a message and publishing the message in the IM group. In the present invention, a chat robot is added in an IM group, and a function of timed publishing messages by the chat robot is added to increase the message quantity and topics of the IM group, thus not only messages can be sent to users in time, but also IM group activity may be enhanced, which enables users to accept and love the IM group gradually.

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FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention relates to Instant Messaging (IM) field, and more particularly, to a method and system for actively publishing a message in an IM group using a chat robot.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]With the development of network technologies, IM has become a common way of network communication of people. In addition to one to one communication, IM can also create an IM group, with which friends or persons having common interests can use network to perform instant text message, voice or video communication.[0003]The chat robot is an artificial intelligence robot, which can always online through communication means and communicate with people using a natural language. The chat robot possesses many value-added services as well as chat function. The value-added services include weather inquiry, map inquiry, life news inquiry, calculator, dictionaries, and so on.[0004]As regional differences or cultural differences lead to that different regions h...

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Benefits of technology

[0006]The technical problems to be solved by the present invention are as follows. In view of the defect that the interest of users in IM group in some areas is not high and IM group activity is lower, embodiments of the present invention provide a method and system for actively publishing a message in an IM group using a chat robot, so as to improve users' interest in IM group and enhance the IM group activity.

[0036]In the present invention, a chat robot is added in an IM group, and a function of timed publishing messages by the chat robot is added to increase message quantity and topics of the IM group, thus not only messages can be sent to users in time, but also IM group activity may be enhanced, which enables users to accept and love the IM group gradually.

Problems solved by technology

As regional differences or cultural differences lead to that different regions have different acceptance of the IM group, users in some types of IM groups of some areas are more active, but for some other areas or some other types of IM groups, there may be the following problems: the ratio of users using IM groups is lower, the number of speakers is small, and it is difficult for users in the IM groups to find topics which the users have common interest in, and the like.

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